Braised Beef Brisket

Tender beef brisket roasted in an easy, savory sauce flavored with onions and red wine. Ingredients are adjusted to conform to a renal diet plan.

Beef brisket is a cut from the chest area of cattle. This cut of beef requires slow cooking for many, many hours so as to gradually dissolve the very tough connective tissues found throughout the meat. Undercooked brisket is tough and difficult to chew.

There are many different ways to cook beef brisket. The Southern way typically involves smoking the meat for several hours and then serving it with barbecue sauce. The recipe below cooks the brisket slowly in a pan in an oven, braising in a liquid consisting of beef consommé and other savory ingredients.